Public Training Programmes
This is a 3-day hands-on, in-person workshop that delves into the messiness of sense-making. You will learn how to analyse and synthesise qualitative data through guided practice.
2025 Runs: 3-5 March, 23-25 July, 4-6 November
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This full-day hands-on workshop can provide you the fundamentals and principles of being a good design thinking facilitator. You will learn how to stay neutral while bringing others through a problem solving process; principles of facilitating divergent, convergent and emergent processes; and gain different tools for different stages of a design process.
2025 Runs: 10 April, 8 July, 15 August, 7 October
This is a 2-day hands-on workshop that delves into the messiness of design facilitation, offering you a safe space to learn how to be a better facilitator through guided practice. This workshop will cover topics like managing power dynamics, tension, challenging behaviours and facilitating design critique in a manner that fosters conversation.
2025 Runs: 30-31 July, 8-9 October
This 2-day workshop will provide you with frameworks and tools from the field of Organisation Development (OD) that can help you support the organisations and communities you work with.
2025 Runs: 14-15 May, 16-17 September
This is a full-day experiential workshop to introduce how the field of futures thinking could enable individuals and organisations to thrive in an increasingly complex world. In this workshop, we will explore why you think of the future the way you do, what other possibilities and how these reflections would be useful alongside design processes.
2025 Runs: 16-17 June
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EFFECTIVE CAPABILITY BUILDING
Our Approach to Training
Studio Dojo works at the intersection of four disciplines: Design Thinking, Futures Thinking, Organisation Development and Leadership Development.
We believe that design thinking is an effective problem solving technique, but stopping there does not equip individuals and teams with sufficient competencies to be able to solve the issues we face in the world today.
This is why we think it is important to supplement design thinking with the skills, techniques and mindsets from three other fields; futures thinking, organisation development and leadership development.
We believe that design thinking equips us with tools to address our present and immediate future, while futures thinking equips us with tools to address the long term future.
Leadership development and organisation development on the other hand, are more focused on the health of our systems, from intrapersonal to interpersonal, group and systemic levels to be able to move toward our visions.
Studio Dojo aims to be the training ground where designers and teams can build competencies in a variety of tools, as well as develop the health of their teams and individual lives, so that they can do more good for the worlds we live in.
BUILDING SKILLSETS
Customised Training Programmes
Whether you are an in-house design team or an agency, Studio Dojo can work with you to craft a training programme that will build skills and competencies for your team to be successful.
It typically takes one to two weeks to get to know your team’s needs and to develop a programme. Depending on needs, such training can vary from a full-day programme to regular one-hour weekly sessions.
Customised programmes work best for teams consisting of 5 to 30 people.
Some popular topics that design teams greatly benefit from include:
Power Dynamics
What are the different types of power and how do you skillfully manage the natural power dynamics that arise within a team?
Interviewing and observation skills for researchers
How to be a more effective researcher and designer by listening and observing to unsaid things.
Polarity thinking
How can shifting from “either-or” thinking to “both-and” thinking supplement traditional problem solving mindsets?
Effective creative communications in teams
What are the six speech acts and how can understanding them help us have more effective conversations in creative teams?
How to Engage Customised Training Services
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